Curtain rod threader



Muy 2,A 1933.

l. GARNETZ CURTAIN ROD THREADER Filed Feb. 17, 1932 ATTOR N EY Patented May 2, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT; *oFFlcE IDA. GABNETZ, 0F WATEBFORD, WISCONSIN' CURTAIN ROD THREADER Application iled February 17, 1982. Serial No. 598,632.

My present invention has reference to an article for housewives use, and is in the vnature of a threader of a construction to firmly grip lthe ends of either round or rectangular curtain rods to permit of the same being threaded through the loop at the top of a conventional fabric curtain to facilitate such operation and to revent the cutting or tearing of the curtain y the sharp edges of the rod.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of the improvement.

Figure 2 is an approximately central transverse longitudinal sectional view through the improvement with the round rod gripped therein.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the improvement with parts broken away. j n

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view on the line 4 4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a similar sectional view but illustrating the jaw end of the threader engaging with the grooved and substantially rectangular curtain rod.

It will be noted as the description progresses that the improvement is of an extremely simple construction which may be cheaply manufactured and commercialized. The threader is constructed of a single piece of any desired material that embodies resiliency and the said threader 1 is substantially elliptical in cross section and is tapered from one to its other or pointed end 2. The end 2 is rounded, as is the body of the device so that no sharp or abrupt surfaces are presented. The outer and widened end of the body 1 is slotted longitudinally for a determined portion of its length to provide oppositely arranged spring clamping jaws 3 and 4, respectively. The inner faces of the jaws 3 and 4 are rounded outwardly at the ends thereof so that there is a flared opening or mouth between the jaws.

The jaws have their confronting faces centrally grooved longitudinally, as at 5, and the said grooves have inner rounded walls.

'lhe inner or active face of the jaw 4 is cut at o posite inward angles from its outer end to t e groove 5 therein to provide the same with angle walls 6. y

A round curtain rod 7 is inserted through the flared opening between the jaws and is received in the grooves 5 and firmly held. in position by the sprin tension of the jaws toward each other. T e rod 7 may be readily fed through the fold 8 of a curtain 9 as disclosed by Figure 1 of the drawing without liability of injury to the curtain, which is very liable to occur when the abrupt end of the rod 7 contacts with the cloth or with the threads when the rod is fed through the fold 8 without the improvement thereon., fll r8od can be expeditiously fed through the When cross sectionally rectangular curtain rods 9 are employed, such rods are di- 7 rected between the inner faces of the jaws. This type of rods have their edges rounded and bent at outward angles, as at 10, in order to permit of the cooperating rod section telescopin therein and the feeding of this type of ro s through the fold of a curtain requires extreme care unless a threader attachment is applied. The walls 10 of the rod 9 contact with the angle walls 6 on the jaw 4 of the improvement and while the jaws 3 and 8.0 4 exert a suiiicient pressure against both the round type and rectangular type of rods to hold the same between the jaws such pressure is not sufficient to compress or otherwise interfere with the shape of the rods.

The construction and advantages of the improvement will, it is thought,be a parent by those skilled in the art to 'whic the invention relates so that further detailed description will not be required.

Having described' the invention, I claim:

A threading point for curtain rods, comprising a member which is substantially elliptical in cross section and which is ta ered from one to its other end, and whose re uced end is rounded, said member, from its widened end being `centrally slotted longitudinally for a determined length to aiord opposed jaws which exert a spring tension toward each other and each of said jaws being centrally and longitudinally grooved, and being inwardly rounded from their outer ends, and the inner wall of one of the jaws being inclined from the outer edge to the central groove therein, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.

IDA GARNETZ. 

